14 Wrestlers With Winning Records Over Hulk Hogan

The Immortal Hulk Hogan is a big horrible unrepentant racist who has forever destroyed his legacy despite WWE's ongoing attempts to rehabilitate his image.

In his day, though, he was the best worker.

Mechanically not great - even his weirdly vaunted NJPW run while technically a bit better still fell below the standard in the east - there was nobody better at manipulating a crowd. He was a giant, towering over most in an era of wall-to-wall muscle freaks and lard arses, and yet he was still unbelievable at making you think that he couldn't get the job done without your vocal support. It was broad and histrionic, absolutely, but inordinately effective.

Hogan's golden retriever dries itself after surprise bath selling routine was all the more impressive given that he very rarely lost. Your support was nice, but almost entirely unnecessary. Unless those lights were reflecting on the anatomy of one of his family members, he did not enjoying staring at them.

Hogan broke out in hives at the prospect of doing a job - and in his defence he was right almost every time, since his megastar hero act relied on him being a hero - so much so that "that doesn't work for me brother" is wrestling speak for "I'm not doing the job".

Now, this list is caveated - Hogan mostly wins LOL when not limited to singles matches - but who can say that they own the biggest self-serving carny in the history of the biz...?

WCW was finished, one could argue, in January of 1999. It was objectively done even as early as April; neither Hercules nor Jesus Christ could bring it back from the dead, and if they somehow managed that, Vince Russo would have senselessly killed it again in October purely for the swerve.

By March of 2000, the promotion was comfortably the worst thing to exist, possibly in any medium ever. You can go back and watch 2000 WCW for some brief schadenfreude escapism, but it's simply so horrific that the effect is like that of drinking something brutally strong much too quickly. It is so potently bad that it makes you feel physically awful.

You can only handle a bit, and that bit is Hulk Hogan pointing out the Wall from a distance of several hundred metres on Nitro.

The Wall stood on top of the Sheraton hotel, and was meant to ominously convey to Hogan that there was a choke slam in his future. The problem is that Wall was only visible through a close-up camera shot; only the TV viewer could logically see him, as was illustrated when the director zoomed out. It is no exaggeration to state that Wall was so tiny, from Hogan's perspective, that he resembled a star in the night sky. Which was ironic; as a Monster of the Week, he was anything but.

Wall and Hogan actually wrestled later that night, and in their only singles meeting, the lime green Power Plant grad went over by disqualification.